niteowl7710

I don't want to be that guy...BUT...unless you can get the entirety of the UK to pre-pay for a road going version of this kit, then it's not something that's going to happen. Belkits, Beemax/NuNu, etc are selling kits to race car modelers, who aren't afraid to open their wallets for this stuff (this kit and Belkits stuff is over $60US at this point), and who will more than likely buy both versions, and then a few extra to make with aftermarket liveries. I mean it's an interesting car, looks like what a 1st Gen U.S. Taurus could have looked like if anyone cared, but until someone can prove the working theory wrong - there's just not enough sales in the street versions of these cars to justify the expense, particularly to a nearly singular market.

Jim Keeler's personally involvement with the tooling he made all those years ago coolness factor aside...playing mix n match with a bunch of...60 yr old tooling, is hardly a threat to Revell, Round2, or any anyone else. Have people already forgotten about the 69 Boss 302, '68 & '69 Chevelle, and upcoming '71-'73 Mustang already? Or that 2020 was basically cancelled? I mean Revell always had a spring new kit, fall new kit, and usually Spring & Fall Reissue Variant, and then everything else for the year was a boat load of reissues on the 8 year cycle. They released new kits, started planning their first new post-sale kit, then the world went on pause. The recent merger and relocation of things to Atlanta doesn't help speed things up either. Let's see what they have to see for themselves in Vegas next week before we finish kicking dirt on their grave and proclaim another company of ancient kit reissues as the model to follow.

The Silver car was the 16th kit in the Sports Car Series. Not much of anything was really directly imported to the U.S. back then (1981). Ironically the Silver one is the easiest of the two to find in the secondary resale market in Japan. Never pay more than $50 for one, if you're willing to have the patience to bid on an auction they usually go for less than $30 in Japan.

Jokes on both of us and it'll be the foot rest for the navigator for a Rally version...they were used in the very beginning of Gr. B.

Given how the rear end of the body is engineered with the license plate surround being a separate part, it certain lends itself to the later Series 2/3/Turbo lights. Besides Hasegawa always has like 5 variants planned before they get around to adding resin chin spoilers, window louvers, or female figures to a kit.

I wouldn't get rid of mine, if nothing else than the idea of building a N.A. spec RX-7. I don't know that this kit will ever come that way, at least not at first. Also Hasegawa's kit is a SA22C FIRST Gen 1st Gen RX, I'm pretty sure the Monogram kit is Series 2 "FB" RX which has a different below the bumper air intake design than the SA. Interesting thing is the description says it's going to be molded in green. I wasn't aware you could order styrene pellets in baby diarrhea... This interior tub that has no carpet, but is a steel stamping makes me think RaceKar! I wonder if they'd re-do the 79 Daytona 24hrs winner...Aoshima has been carrying that water with the old re-branded IMAI kit they sell, and even went so far as to Cartograf up some new decals for it when it was put back into the catalog this last go around. But that kit in general is so motorizingly bad I can't bring myself to actually buy one.

I'll leave this here for consideration and debate. The next in the line of Hot Wheels marketing...

There's a slate of candidates for the IPMS eBoard that have all figured this out, instead of taking a giant BLAH_BLAH_BLAH_BLAH on Wargaming Miniatures, SciFi and Gundam for "killing the hobby", it's needs to be treated for what it is...a gateway drug into building all sorts of models. There's been a big push within the Warhammer community to start weathering their gaming pieces with what would traditionally be considered "Armor Weathering"...well that means they need to get into hobby shops or online stores that carry that sort of product line, and eventually some of them are going to buy a model tank, plane or car as a result of being exposed to a wider world of scale modeling.

Well I think for someone like Justin who's in the hobby business and can see what he's selling and how strong sales have been in general in the past year, it's probably kind of frustrating that the Sky is Falling crowd is still out there bleating loudly into the darkness. Testors ceasing production of the Model Master lines cause a major fit to be tied, and there are still people out there insisting Testors as a whole closed. Which isn't surprising since we're nearly 3 1/2 years past the Revell sale and people still insist that Revell is dead. No amount of data or evidence is going to change some people's minds about it, because their hobby shop closed, or their preferred brand of paint is gone, or the kits being made aren't the subject THEY want to see done. American Car Modelers have an amazing ability to be incredibly insular as if the rest of the world and cars beyond 1971 don't exist. These two Ford Sierra Cosworth kits plug a gap within the Rally Niche, and I'm sure most people who buy one, will buy both - the way Belkits sales tend to go. DM is very large hobby supplier based in Portugal, and looks like they're taking a page out of the Domino playbook - the big Belgian distributor behind Belkits. Look at this section of the forum, the most popular topics the past few weeks have all been about Atlantis releases. I hope they sell a boatload of stuff and make all their money, because for all the "Hobby is Dying" nonsense in general, I don't see what Atlantis' plans are beyond 2030. The hobby isn't dying, but the customer base who want to buy 50-65 year old model kits certainly will be...

Also remember Quantum/Blitz only paid $49,999 for the entire lot of Revell tooling. How much could they have possibly sold the odds and ends to Atlantis, who then turned around and sold the NASCAR stuff to Salvinos JR? Despite people still insisting it's so, (maybe the ole say it enough and will it to reality thing) the new owners didn't sell EVERY U.S. based tool onto Atlantis, as the "new" Revell US has re-stocked the 1st Gen RX-7 and Ramcharger, and released the Chevy LUV and Custom Chevy Van all of which are U.S. based tools. Pretty sure the McEwen 57 Chevy kit exists in the pile of stuff they sold off only because as you and others have pointed out is shares a chassis with a bunch of somewhat older kit releases that they probably didn't see ever revisiting.

All of the GTM Cobras (this would be the 2nd release) are based on the Sunny/Academy kit. They seem to have some sort of access to Academy's tooling since they also ran off some of those Accurate Miniature Corvettes that Academy has the tooling to these days.

Yeah I was adding more to the reply when you got to commenting. ? I also managed to quote myself instead of edit the post. Am I losing my mind or did the quote and edit button get moved around?

Coors branded it be...

It's the old ESCI kit this time in an Italeri box Well Round2 has pretty much no European penetration, so that release of the kit here in an AMT box was pretty much only for the North American market. Which was a weird choice since it was that ESCI GTi kit rather than the actual AMT Rabbit.

Double Post

Well I mean the easiest way to get Mr. Cardtable to buy another model kit (and this goes for getting kids into the hobby as well) is giving him something that he can actually build without a 5 gallon bucket of Bondo and wood planer. Revell for all of their body proportion errors figured out back in the late 1980s with the '69 Camaro and '32 Ford how to make new tool kits that actually could be built into the subject with a minimal amount of subtle urban warfare. It's why Tamiya kits, of all genres are so popular. It's part of why Bandai is rocking the world with their Gundam and Star Wars product lines. There's a silly notion you have to "build skills" with crappy models as some sort of right of passage. But you build skills by building models to completion, and then washing and repeating that process. Not by being endlessly frustrated by flash, fit and finish and consigning things to the Shelf of Doom or worse. Plenty of vintage kits can be built into fine models, by someone who already knows how to build models.

Yeah, like I said in my post the fixed either the plastic consistency itself to flow through the mold better, or adjusted the top part of the body tool to improve the plastic flow. That's not really fixing anything as much as it is correcting a manufacturing defect. That's the exact same body shell, with the exact same chrome tree, and exact same window glass, so the roof was not "raised" as some people claimed was the "real" reason Revell stopped production on the kit. Frankly the error is even more perplexing given the fact the Roadster is out now too, and it has a separate chrome tree with it's own specific windshield frame - and it's own specific glass pieces. IPMS? Like the International Plane Modeling Society? I mean that F-4B Phantom Tamiya just released does look really sweet. The P38 & F-14 were supposedly stellar, and the Phantom is even better. But I haven't built planes since I was a kid, but still...

How do I know that? Because I believe I stated - lemme check, yep I did - Andy's no idiot. Nobody involved in this hobby who buys collections would ever buy one sight unseen without a complete and thorough inventory. How else would you even know what to offer for it? Beyond that without an agreed upon inventory, how do you keep someone who's selling you stuff from going - Yep it's all here *pats boxes* and the 50 most valuable kits are now AWOL - and nobody knows nothing about no case of '68 Coronets. 1,300 swap meet & NASCAR kits is a wildly different figure than 1,300 vintage promos and annuals. He might not know exactly what kit is in exactly which one of those banker boxes, but he dang well knows exactly what kits are SUPPOSED to be in there in total. Go read through the comment sections on these videos he and his friends are posting, and then tell me this isn't creating a whole slew of unnecessary drama. Because people (at this point it's several people) normally suggest hobby shop owners hire armed guards to "Keep the trash from showing up and stealing all the good stuff"... ? What trash? Who is trash in this scenario? These are model kits. not gold bullion. They're all worth 69 cents to $20, like they were new unless someone is willing to pay more for them. The calls to make it all into a museum, the jealousy, the petty bickering, the "1300 found models", the "model kit archaeology", the people thanking him for "Bring these kits back into the open" - like the poor schmoe who spent his life collecting them all was some evil doer who was destroying the hobby. It's all low level made for YouTube drama that could have been skipped.

Yeah we all did, and you know how long ago that was? It was so long ago that both of those kits were manufactured here in the U.S. That's how long ago that was...two owners of Lindberg and three owners of Revell ago. You know what wasn't fixed? The '69 Nova, the, '57 Ford, the '67 Camaro, the '70 Cuda, and famously the '92 Mustang to name a few Revell "DoN't JuDGe tHE TeSt ShOTs" gems. Moebius never dealt with their Mopars, the F Series or the Pontiacs which all still have same shape, proportion and fit issues as they did when we saw them the first time. I should point I understand why, it's all a matter of budgets, deadlines and the 99% rule - Eg 99% of people would never notice the problems, and nearly nobody who ever sees the built model will see it next to the 1:1 to compare it to in person. BTW that Jag...for some reason Michael's of all places has it in stock.. It's still molded in Red. Remember the red plastic was supposedly the problem? Now maybe the plastic has been reformulated to run at the specs of the mold machine, or maybe the top insert of the tools has the injection points and flow rate fiddled with, but the big fix rumor of the roof height? Big fat NOPE with that one folks. So you can try to be a dismissive as you want to be, but the overwhelming evidence says - Whatever...Enjoy this how you see it, because that's how you're going to get it.

I never said it wasn't the way it's done, just explained that's how it works. Collections come up all the time all over the place - it's a matter of being in the right place with the right amount of cash. If anything I'm just tired of the - Golly Gee Willicker Look What I "Found" - nature of it all. Andy comes off as this lovable almost bumbling character on YT, but he runs a successful hobby shop which means he's a smart and shrewd businessman. He knows EXACTLY what he bought down to the last box. All of these videos are doing is creating unnecessary fake drama. If the collection contents are truly great, they will sell themselves.

The biggest issue with JoHan kits are the ones that most of these appear to be. The USA Oldies Series which are all very late JoHan or Seville Industries era reissues. They tend to be missing all of the inserts for most of the extra parts by that time, most of them seem to be run in whatever color plastic pellets they both had left over from their primary molding jobs of making 1:1 car parts - so it's possible to get kits that are more than one color inside, in ways that defy explanation. Also by this time most of the molds were showing age and a lot of them didn't line up real well and the kits are resulting flash monsters. I have a DeSoto Adventurer that has body mold seems that are almost more prominent than the car's actual fins. They wouldn't command the prices they do if not for the fact, as Steve points out, there aren't ever going to be new ones.

Moebius just made a Great Dane 53' Reefer trailer in both ribbed and smooth sides between 2012-2015. Granted it doesn't have air discs, but in my experience not that many trailers that are more than 2-3 yrs old are equipped with them anyways.

People always say that, but I think the evidence has born out over the past several years that in fact WYSIWYG when it comes to these things. I can't think of a major retool that's occured from forum/public "outcry" in the social media age. The Ole stories of the 61 Impala and '69 Charger are from a previous age where you actually had to buy the kit, or rely on print media (SAe) to know what you were getting.

...interesting. The original ordering form for that said it was going to be Coors branded.